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mikrl
3y ago
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Why use a fancy word like bad, terrible, frightful, or vexatious when you can use the easily understood and versatile ungood?
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wyclif
3y ago
That is one of George Orwell's six principles of good writing in "Politics and the English Language", which ever writer should read.
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